There's rich and poor man verses since the very first Smith version. Several people recommended Paul Olivers book, 'Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records'. An unsinkable ship going down during it's maiden trip, taking the lives of both third class passengers and wealtiest patrons, blew everyone's mind from day one. Subject: Songster & Saints - the album From: outfidel Date: 16 Feb 03 - 11:20 AM A few days ago, I asked Mudcatters for reading material on pre-blues music and musicians.

Titanic sank against a backdrop of worldwide scepsis against unbridled mecanisation, wild fortunes being made and social structures well under pressure. Most of these folk songs see the disaster as a warning, as a symbol of God's power over wealth, hybris and machinery, sometimes even as a herald for more calamities to come, WW I in particular. Stoneman ('25 - Sinking Of The Titanic), Richard 'Rabbit' Brown ('27 - Sinking Of The Titanic), Frank Hutchison ('27 - The Last Scene Of The Titanic), Blind Willie Johnson ('29 - God Moves On The Water, covered by Ruthie Foster in 2012], Darby & Tarlton ('30), Hi Henry Brown ('32 - Titanic Blues), Dixon Brothers ('37 - Down With The Old Canoe), Lead Belly ('40s), The Carter Family ('50s), Almeda Riddle ('59), Bill Jackson ('60s).

He was soon followed by Edith Lessing (1912 - Just As The Ship Went Down], William Baltzell (1912 - The Wreck Of The Titanic - piano solo and as a ballet], Dorothy Scarborough (1919), Fanny Grogan ('20 - The Great Titanic], Ernest V. Gavin Friday & Man Seezer Ī master disaster like the sinking of the Titanic triggered a floodwave of topical songs, beginning less than a week after the facts, when a blind preacher in Durham was the first to bring his own account in a streetcorner song. Track 3 'Oh Death' begins with a quote of Camille Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor on solo violin.Woody Guthrie 1998:.The song, 'Middle of June' appears on the television series One Tree Hill in the episode, 'At the Bottom of Everything'. Īfter the release of the album, the Courage became more dormant as Abby pursued her college career and the majority of the band's shows were performed Noah, Ivan Gunderson, and Travis Ehrentrom in Washington. Paige Richmond, a journalist for Seattle Weekly wrote a review three days later regarding the performance in a blog titled 'Live review: Noah Gundersen Brings Q Cafe Crowd to Its Feet' praising the performance as well as the band's unity.

The Courage held a release show the night that Saints & Liars came out to an overcrowded audience at The Q Cafe. Several of the songs including 'Caroline', 'Middle of June', and 'Oh, Death' appeared on Noah Gundersen's Myspace as early as September, but the album was released on October 9, 2009. It was recorded in the fall of 2009 with Karli Fairbanks. The name of the EP comes from the track, 'Middle of June', in the line 'All the saints and the liars sitting by the fire/ what will happen to us now?' Saints & Liars is the second EP by Noah Gundersen.

Songsters and Saints by Paul Oliver